Preview(ish) - A History of What Comes Next by Sylvain Neuval

I would like to thank Penguin Michael Jospeh for allowingme to read an excerpt of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest comment

Publisher - Penguin Michael Joispeh

Published - 4/3

Price - £14.99 hardcover £9.99 Kindle eBook

Mia, a nineteen-year-old girl, is sent by the OSS to find Wernher von Braun: Germany's - and the world's - foremost rocket scientist. Her mission: stop the Russians getting hold of him.

But von Braun is suspicious. And so he should be.

For Mia is no ordinary girl. She only looks human. And helping the Allies win the Second World War is just one part of her plan . . .

Because there's an even darker conflict on Earth. A secret struggle thousands of years old. One that has taken generations of Mia's people.

But can the firing of rockets finally bring about its end?

Can Mia, as the last of her kind, bring the stars down to earth?

And if she succeeds, what will happen to us?

I was allowed to read a few pages of this novel and found it fascinating. The start I read was set in the dying days of WW2 and is already talking about the ways the allies realised there were those with skills that they wanted alive — in particular the infamous Werher von Braun. Our narrator has been sent to infiltrate and Neuval shows that this technology was built on the backs of prisoners. Our lead is in disguise and s pretending to be the Nazi’s cousin. It’s tense, unusual and no idea where it is going. I am intrigued so this is definitely going onto my TBR stack!